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to hear him given a good reputation by the friendly 

 visitor. 



The museum being closed on the aggravatingly 

 numerous saints' days, I often used to buy a ticket 

 to any neighboring town, no matter where, and 

 then tramp on to some other point. Once a friend 

 and I "descended" at the village of lie Adam, a lu Adam 

 singularly pretty place about twenty-five miles north 

 of Paris. Stopping for luncheon at a small cafe, 

 we bought some chocolate, which we asked to have 

 prepared for drinking. But our hostess had no 

 notion of it as a beverage, and we finally made it 

 ourselves in the kitchen. There the good woman 

 held up her hands in surprise at the fragrant liquid 

 we evoked, and remarked: '' Chaque pays a ses 

 mceurs." Although a million people within the 

 same Department made their first morning meal of 

 bread soaked in chocolate, she knew the article 

 only as a popular sweet. 



As a matter of course, I frequently visited the 

 Comedie Fran^aise, to me the most attractive as 

 well as the most instructive of all theaters. At that 

 time Coquelin and Got were leading figures, and 

 with them a young woman whose fame has since ex- 

 tended far. Sarah Bernhardt I first saw as Doha Sol Bernhardt 

 in Victor Hugo's "Hernani"; and I distinctly re- 

 call the wonderful power and passion which she 

 threw into the sentence, ^'Tu es mon lion, superhe 

 et genereux." 



In Copenhagen I spent a week or so at the Uni- 

 versity as the scientific guest of Charles Frederik 

 Liitken, the accomplished professor of Zoology. No 

 institution on the Continent impressed me more 

 favorably than that one of the North, and were it 



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